Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the upstart All-America Football Conference was in kneepants, Elmer Layden, then commissioner of the rival pro National Football League, was asked whether his well-heeled, well-established league would recognize it. Layden scornfully replied: "Let them get a football." By last week, three years later, the junior circuit had succeeded so well that both leagues were practically broke...
...Professional baseball's National League also refused to recognize a rival American League in 1900, three years later was forced to make peace when the junior circuit stole away too many players by doubling salaries...
...Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing off to the gold fields, leaving nobody to buy a paper...
...third contradiction is between rival capitalistic empires, which, says Stalin, started the two world wars...
...years, NBC had never seen anything like it. First Amos 'n' Andy and Jack Benny went over to rival CBS. Then Fred Allen said flatly that he was through with radio after next June...